At the Market this week:
Tomatoes
Peas
Homemade Breads & Sweets
Assorted peppers
Bell peppers
Micro greens
Pastured eggs
Summer squashes
Pickles
Coffee (Tuesdays)
Local Honey
Pepper Jellies
Handmade Soaps
Plants - vegetables, herbs, flowers
Eggplant
Fresh Prepared Foods
Fresh herbs
Cut Flowers
Soups AND MORE!
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FRESH MARKET NEWS
On Tuesdays, visit us in the parking lot of CHRIST THE KING LUTHERAN CHURCH, in Rice Village, 2353 Rice Blvd at Greenbriar. Tuesday hours are 4 PM til 7 PM, every week!
On Saturdays, you'll find us behind ONION CREEK CAFE at 3106 White Oak Drive between Heights Blvd and Studemont, in the Heights. We're there from 8 AM til noon or til sold out - whichever comes first!! Come early to avoid the heat and get the best choice!
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Real Food, Naturally: The Butter-vs-Margarine Debate
Should we care?
by Glen Boudreaux, Jolie Vue Farms
Jane E. Brody of the New York Times wrote recently about the merits and demerits of butter vs margarine. It's the now old argument about which of two "evils" should you accept, saturated fat (butter) or hydrogenated fatty acids (margarine). As the grandson of long-lived, natural, organic, raw milk dairymen, I made my choice long ago. Butter is better. Not only is its taste vastly superior to the oily, bland, manufactured, molecularly-broken margarine, it is better for you - a product your body recognizes and knows how to use, as opposed to the unnatural man-made puzzle we call margarine. (Did you know that the first version of margarine was invented to fatten pigs more quickly - it killed the pigs!)
However, like all nutrition studies today, the author necessarily has to use the industrialized food product that we call butter today. What if they could compare butter that was produced from milkers raised on grass and clover pastures, in fresh air and sunshine, without antibiotics or steroids, without the crowded and manure-laden housing, without the herbicidal corn and grains they are fed in their untidy little house? While that butter might actually be challenged by margarine, real butter would score a first round knockout.
My advice - find a raw milk dairy in your region (they do exist), eat their butter, and never wonder about its superiority again.
Yours in the local harvest, 1000s of miles fresher,
Glen Boudreaux
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Houston Farmers Market
Every Saturday from 8 AM to 12 noon, behind Onion Creek Coffee House, 3106 White Oak Drive in the Heights, between Heights Boulevard and Studewood
Every Tuesday from 4 PM to 7 PM, 2353 Rice Blvd at Greenbriar in the parking lot of Christ the King Lutheran Church
Houston Farmers Market - Market Contact: Joan Gundermann joan1@gundermannfarms.com or Janice McIntosh jmcintosh1@houston.rr.com
photo courtesy Monica Kressman
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